Three Day Weekends

Things I Have Done Recently that Were Not a Waste of Time:

-Go to California and stay an extra week

-Study for Comp exams

-Go to the gym

-Sleep in most days

-Hike to Squaw Peak

-Watch Prince of Persia

-Start Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo... for the fifth time

-Visit with old friends

-Make new friends

-Bake things, especially tortillas and peanut butter bars with chocolate ganache frosting

-Catch up on the latest Eurovision results (Turkey got #2! That makes me happy)

-Pass my comp exams (making the past year good instead of a huge waste of time)

-Laundry and cleaning

-LOST season finale (I liked it overall, but then I have no problem with questions going unanswered. Quite the reverse, actually)

-Bathing (apparently this is also the secret to Jake Gyllenhaal's work out for Prince of Persia)

-Sharing jokes with an old friend

-Chatting

Code Names

Some of My Favorite (Secret) Nicknames For Other People:
-Boone (Boonation)
-Tree Boy
-The Mexican
-Christophe
-La Moustache
-The Pirate
-Juan
-Locke
-Blonde Nate Sharp (not so much of a secret)
-The British Officer
-Bobby Clearwater (not actually a secret at all)

Summer

Guilty Pleasures:
-ice cream (I've been told I eat "missionary-sized portions," and it's true.)
-CATS the musical
-French music (especially Tony Parker)
-private dance parties in my room
-giggling at jokes in my head and not explaining them to others
-chips and salsa (I have no self-control when it comes to this delightful nosh)
-watching "Good Eats" on DVD (yes, I do have it on DVD)

Accomplishments of the week:
-those extra five minutes on the stairclimber at the gym (twice this week)
-dancing with Jose Luis (maybe not an accomplishment, per se, but fun nonetheless)
-going to the hiphop class at 24
-knowing what Cinqo de Mayo is (although I do kind of sympathize with the other side... Who DOESN'T love Napoleon????)
-running 3 miles in ~35 minutes
-working (seriously.. it's hard to motivate myself here)
-writing in my journal twice (and I plan on doing it again soon here)
-reading the scriptures every day
-watching LOST (I almost forgot about it... and it was a REALLY good episode)

Academia

Memorable Papers I Wrote in College:
-Animal Imagery as Mimetic Metaphor in Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur and Le Samourai
-Brain Washing and Propaganda in Maoist China
-French reception of Wiemar cinema in the interwar period (not yet written)

Majors I Could Have Done But Never Tried:
-Linguistics
-Political Science
-Anthropology
-Psychology
-Neuroscience
-English Language
-English Literature
-Classical Studies
-Scandinavian Studies (emphasis in Humanities)
-European Studies
-Geography
-Economics
-Philosophy

Languages I Wish I Studied:
-German
-Danish
-Finnish
-Dutch
-Japanese
-Mandarin
-Latin
-Classical Greek
-Hebrew

Graduate Schools I Wish I Could Get Into:
-Johns Hopkins
-Yale
-Northwestern
-Berkeley
-Cambridge

Options for Post-Graduate Life:
-Internship (USA, Canada, or Europe)
-Volunteer work or something similar in Africa
-Mission
-Grad School
-Work (to fund one of the above options)
-Psychosomatic Reintegration?